Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front...
by holoduke on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:15AM
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I run a popular app (native ios and android) and a web version. I find having A single json serving api much easier to maintain. The frontends are isolated projects. The backend is just a simple layer with static data served as json. If you would have static html it means you need to update all static files whenever a ui change is needed. Makes it overly complicated. Caching becomes also a challenge and the so does the performance.
Currently just running a few Hetzner instances to serve 50k requests per second. That would be really hard with a server side rendered html.
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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front...
by Y-bar on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:28AM
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> If you would have static html it means you need to update all static files whenever a ui change is needed. Makes it overly complicated
We do use a templating engine and separate CSS files, so no, not at all, all static files does not need updating on every change.
> Caching becomes also a challenge and the so does the performance
Not at all, not even on black fridays.
> That would be really hard with a server side rendered html.
Why do you pose that hypothetical when our real-world experience is easy?